Jay Turner
Dr. Jay Turner is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He holds a joint appointment in Civil Engineering and is a founding member of the Environmental Engineering Program faculty. Professor Turner earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from UCLA (1987) and a D.Sc. from Washington University (1993), all in Chemical Engineering. Following his M.S. studies, he spent two years at the University of Duisburg, Germany, where he was a DAAD Fellow. Following his D.Sc. studies, Dr. Turner spent eight months on assignment with the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. DOT, as an Air Quality Specialist. He subsequently joined the Washington University faculty in 1994 as an Assistant Professor of Engineering & Policy.
Dr. Turner’s research focuses on air quality characterization and control with emphasis on field measurements to support a variety of applications in the atmospheric science, regulation and policy, and health studies arenas. One study uses a UV-DOAS to characterize at high time resolution formaldehyde and other gaseous components of interest. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the St. Louis – Midwest Fine Particulate Matter Supersite. He is also Principal Investigator of the National Water Resources Capacity Development Project and serves as Education Associate Director for the Engineering Research Center (ERC) on Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis which is headquartered at the University of Kansas.
Dr. Turner has served on several state and local air quality-related advisory committees, and served on the Science and Technical Support Workgroup of the FACA Subcommittee for Ozone, Particulate Matter, and Regional Haze Implementation Programs. He is a member of the American Association for Aerosol Research, (AAAR), the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA), and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).